22 tc. . . and rzght over here was Sewell Avery's office." German could obtain, and it fooled not only a lot of resident Germans but also a lot of non-resIdent American news- papers, which quoted Atlantik broad- casts as inside-Germany stuff, as, indeed, it frequen tlr was. The day after one bombing of Duisburg, for instance, At- Ian tik was on the air reporting that on Gneisenaustrasse twenty-one houses had been demolished and fourteen h avily damaged, that rescue work was still go- ing on in the air-raid cellars of Nos. 3 and 6, and that twenty-nine dead had been counted so far. Similarly, circum- stan tial reports were given for a dozen other streets. Again, in a broadcast call- ing for better treatment of German sol- diers' relatives, Atlantik stated that the tobacco shop of Wilhelm Koester, a deceased soldier, in the Leverkusener- strasse, Remscheid, had been closed and the goods and fittings confiscated, that the Widow Koester had been put to labor in the Alexander Works, and that as a result her two children, aged eleven and twelve, were left to their own de- vices all day. This sort of information, which for the most part had not ap- peared in the German press, was true, . . and you will have to form your own concl usion as to how it was obtained. (You couldn't have picked the vVidow Koester up by aerial photography. ) We can, however, disclose the source of such Atlantik items as the fact that there were fourteen typhoid cases in a specific town and that the authorIties were also vlorried about a measles epidelnic (twenty-three cases) in the northern section of a certain city. Twenty years before the war began, the Germans started sending monthly health statistics for each town to an international health commission in Geneva, and the diligent bureaucrats kept on with these reports throughout the war. ...-\11 the British had to do was consult the Geneva files. The Nazis never thought of this; time after '-' time they descended upon an epidemic- ridden town and arrested municipal authorities for having trafficked with the enemy. Followers of E. Phillips Oppenheim will be relieved to learn that .A.tlantik did not confine itself to the truth. In the summer of 1943 it announced that Rommel had been killed in a plane crash on his way to Italy; this cire,," from the OCTOBER t , 19+5 Germans the useful infor- mation that Romme] was alive in southern France. Another time it said that German police had warned against touching drifting rubber balloons-which were probably poisoned and certainly carried lit- tle bottles of incendiary liquid-that the ene- my was releasing. Taking this as a tipoff, the Nazis withdrew thousands of po- lice from their war jobs, outfitted them with rubber gloves, and set them to picking up harmless pieces of aluminum foil dropped by Allied fliers to confound the German radar. An old propaganda device is the raising of false hopes; an Atlantik adaptation of this was to announce that lis- teners had written in ask- ing for the pronunciation of the name of the Italian fortress island Pantelleria) adding, "But you must not worry about Pantel- leria. One cannot smash it, one cannot conquer it. Pantelleria is as in vulner- able as Helgoland." This little exercise in chicanery, we need hardly record, was pulled off as the ..Allies were about to smash Helgo- land's opposite number. One of Atlan tik' s most successful of- ferings was a judicious mixture. of truth and falsehood in which it announced that the Allies had begun their invasion of western Europe but did not have them landing in Normandy. This helped keep the Germans guessing. Atlantik was the first news outlet to announce the attempt on Hitler's life. Nazi lead- ers knew that no powerful underground station was actually operating under their noses, and this scoop must have made a bad day worse. Rooked T ARGE numbers of young boys, we L are informed, spend their Satur- day afternoons in the dark world of the movies, even though they cannot abid e any hint of romance, or, as it is T110re commonly known, mush, which they re- gard as a waste of time between figh t , airplane wrecks, and cattle roundups. In this connection, we wish to extend our sympathy to a couple of lads we ha Vf>